Her last hope is a stem cell donor, yet no UK match has yet been found for the 22-year-old, known as Riya to friends.

Dorridge Music School, where she studies, has set up an HQ for potential donors and is also looking at staging a benefit concert. The event will feature the city’s well-known “singing solicitor” - and keen DMS supporter - Laurie Neale.

Laurie has contacted Astro, whose own family have been struck by the spectre of leukaemia. He’s pledged full backing and hopes to link Riya’s campaign on the reggae band’s own website.

It is also hoped Astro will help destroy two myths that have hampered Riya’s heartbreaking search for a donor that only fellow Asians can be a match and that the procedure involves pain and surgery.

“So many people still do not understand the situation or how easy it actually is to be a donor,” said Leigh Perry, the proprietor of the music school. “Register, take a swab test and if you’re a match, simply give blood.”